"ChattyCathy" > wrote in message
...
>I have a question for the 'cookbook collectors' here (or any other
> interested r.f.c.-ers)...
>
> Do you buy the 'in store and/or promotional mini-cookbooks' that are
> sometimes available at your local stupidmarkets (whose
> authors/compilers you've often never heard of before)?
>
> I ask because I found several on display near the check-outs at one of
> our local stupidmarkets today. They were only ZAR25.00 (US$2.50)
> each... So, I bought two. One is called "Budget Beaters" <Cathy waves
> to ChrisD> which does indeed have some tasty looking 'budget' recipes
> in it - and the other is "Delicious Cookies"; I bought that one because
> our kidlette has recently discovered how to make (very basic) cookies,
> and I thought she might like to try some of the (slightly more
> complicated) recipes in there.
>
> BTW, they were both compiled by a local magazine food editor by the name
> of Carmen Niehaus - whom I had never heard of before today ;-).
> --
> Cheers
> Chatty Cathy

I rarely buy the supermarket books in a bin.

Mostly I go to used book stores as well as friends of the library sales.

If the cookbook has notations from the prior owner all the better sometimes
there are newspaper recipes tucked away in pages - all the better.

With book bin books (dime a dozen) the first think I do is check a recipe I
know - If it calls for Chicken Scampi or Fettuccini Carbonara or if it uses
cream of mushroom soup for Stroganoff it's a Pass-o- robles or Pass -a-
dena.

One other thing is I let friends know of my obsession - Once in a while a
friend ( A real reader) goes to the estate sales put on by the "Sisters of
Perpetual agony" as he calls them and he's on the lookout for me. He found
me a 1st edition English translation of The Escoffier Cook Book.

The one other thing I do is look for the older cook books - or local cook
books like the Huntsville Alabama Ladies Auxiliary cook book featuring Miss
Lilly's Iced tea...... It's piece of History!

Dimitri